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Mary Russell waited. She waited, and waited, and then waited some more. Russell didn’t receive the food stamps supplied through Welfare she so heavily relies on until June 23. That’s […]

For anyone who has sat in the waiting room of a welfare office, or spent day after day trying to get an actual caseworker on the phone, it’s not a […]

We at Just Harvest thank the Post-Gazette for joining in our Food Stamp Challenge and having four staffers share their experience with your readers, as they did in the June […]

Jomonna Smith, a 30-year-old woman, held her last job in 2008 as a store cashier. She is a single mother of three children, making ends meet with government assistance, styling […]

WASHINGTON — A strange-bedfellows U.S. House coalition on Thursday brought down the massive farm bill, which would have cut $20.5 billion from the food stamp program — too much for […]

Clairton is separated from the Giant Eagle in Elizabeth by the Monongahela River. The nearest source of groceries to Manchester is 1.4 miles uphill. From the center of Millvale, the […]

The problem of low-income neighborhoods without full-service grocery stores can’t be addressed with a one-size-fits-all solution, says the leader of a South Side-based nonprofit. What works in Clairton might not […]

Starting Monday, four Post-Gazette staffers will eat on $6 a day each as part of the SNAP Challenge. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, colloquially known as food stamps (though there […]

What is as satisfying as a real flour tortilla, handed to you hot and fragrant — speckled with gold, with a bite both crisp and tender, and with a whisper […]

At least two of Pittsburgh’s Citiparks farmers’ markets — the East Liberty and North Side locations — will accept food stamps this season. “It’s a win-win for poor people, affluent […]